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 Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce the Sandcastles Way :: 0679778012
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| Kids tend to blame themselves when parents divorce. The Sandcastles workshop--now mandatory in over a dozen counties throughout the United States--is a half-day group session for children of divorce between the ages of 6 and 17. This intensive workshop helps kids open up and deal with their feelings through drawings, games, poetry, role playing, and other activities. Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce details many of the workshop exercises, all designed to increase communication, understanding, and togetherness between parents and kids. The book is also packed full of suggestions on everything from the best way to break the divorce news to a child (it differs according to age group) to facing the holidays, visitation, custody arrangements, anger, discipline, co-parenting, single parenting, overcompensation, sorrow, custody fights, and much more. Author Gary Neuman never patronizes or preaches, and although he is technically a child advocate, he proves himself to be an advocate of every member of the divorcing family. Neuman takes a hands-on approach and believes that children need not be permanently scarred by divorce--that with work and time, divorce can actually become a positive force for change. A powerful tool for protecting children caught amid parental struggles, Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce should be required reading in all divorcing families. --Ericka Lutz Editorial Descriptions are usually submitted by the manufacturers, publishers and authors. Contact us if you are one of them, and wish to change the above description. |
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Author: Guest
As a mental health professional I am always a little skeptical about this kind of book - when people write based on their experience they sometimes forgo the need to check whether their experience is consistent with that of other people in other places by reviewing the research literature before writing their books. I was pleasantly surprised to find this book full of evidence based suggestions and information for separating/separated parents. It is an easy read, with information clearly presented so non-professionals will find it very helpful; and for those who have a scientific background and who are familiar with the psychological research in this field it will be clear that the book is based upon solid information. A very useful resource.
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Author: Guest
Children of divorce can move on and incorporate this experience as just another in their long lists of experiences that life will serve up to them. It is not the end of the world. It is all about, as the author points out, how you deal with it. With over 60% of the American population divorcing, it is time we spend more time on this subject.
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Author: Guest
As a psychologist and author of "Embracing Your Father: Building the Relationship You Want with Your Dad", I teach daughters how to create more meaningful relationships with their fathers - especially after their parents divorce. I applaud this book for helping children through the difficult times after their parents divorce. Dr. Linda Nielsen author of "Embracing Your Father"
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Author: Guest
I am a professional Christian Counselor. I work primarily with children and their parents. I use recommend this book for all divorced parents who wish to make things work between dad's house and mom's house. It also gives practical, easy helps for parents who do not know how to respond to their children's anger, questions and pain. I have found it very helpful and many of the families I work with have also.
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Author: Guest
This book is a wonderful resource for divorcing/separating parents who want practical tools to monitor what affect it is having on their children. My son was very small when his father and I divorced, and as he grows I return to the book to use the recommendations to help him express any feelings he has, and not hold them inside.
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